Re: buying a cd writer
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:01:33PM +0100, ernst@vindal.com wrote:
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> Yes, agree, I have an old 12x lite on and a newer 40x. Works fine on
> both windoze and debian. I'm also useing a Plextor 48x, very nice. And a
> old Sony 12x and a Teac scsi 12x, also very nice.
>
> I'm useing scsi emulation on everything exept for the Teac ofcourse:) .
> The good ting about scsi emu is that when you have a burner and a cd/dvd
> you are able to copy cd's "on the fly".
I've always wondered about this.
Is it the case (as a local PC shop assistant tried to convince me
recently) that having the reader and burner on the same IDE interface
means that copying CDs is faster? As though the reader can put the data
on the wire and the burner read it directly, without it having to go
reader -> ide bus -> cpu (or mainboard) -> ide bus -> writer.
Totally aside from this, how /do/ I copy a CD directly (in my case,
from /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom)? Can I do something like
$ dd if=/dev/dvd | cdrecord -
assuming that all of cdrecord's options are set correctly in
/etc/default? Any caveats for audio CD versus data?
cheers,
jc
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